Tiyanjana Maluwa is the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at Penn State Law, and Director of the Penn State School of International Affairs. He previously worked as the legal counsel of the OAU (now African Union) and, subsequently, as the legal adviser to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Prior to joining the AU, he was Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has also taught, in full-time and visiting capacities, at other universities in Africa and North America and spent a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Dean Maluwa has written and edited a number of books, contributed chapters to books and is the author of numerous articles in academic journals and other publications in the fields of public international law, human rights and international organizations. He currently serves on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals and is a member of several international professional associations. Since 2005, he has been a member of the International Jury of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. In 1997, he was asked by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Nigeria following the execution of the famed poet-activist Ken Saro Wiwa. Most recently he served as a technical expert to the AU High-Level Panel on Darfur, chaired by former South African President Thabo Mbeki. He has also served as an expert consultant to the African Union, the United Nations and other organizations.

“The African Union, the Southern African Development Community and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development: Some Observations on South Africa’s Contribution to International Law-Making and Institution-Building in Africa, 1994-2004”, 29 South African Yearbook of International Law 5 (2004).

“The Constitutive Act of the African Union and Institution-Building in Post-Colonial Africa”, 16 Leiden Journal of International Law 157 (2003).

“Reimagining African Unity: Some Preliminary Reflections on the Constitutive Act of the African Union”, 10 African Yearbook of International Law 3 (2002).

“International Law-Making in Post-colonial Africa: the Role of the Organization of African Unity", 49 Netherlands International Law Review 81 (2002).

“Implementing the Principle of Gender Equality through the Law: Some Lessons from Southern Africa”, 3 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 249 (1999).

“The Incorporation of International Law and its Interpretational Role in Municipal Legal Systems in Africa: An Exploratory Survey”, 23 South African Yearbook of International Law 45 (1998).

“International Law as an Aid to the Interpretation and Application of Law in Municipal Legal Systems in Africa” in Zyl van, D. & Ajibola, B. (Eds.), The Judiciary in Africa, (Cape Town: Juta, 1998), pp. 47-63.

“Making International Law More Relevant and Readily Available” in UN Codification Division, Making Better International Law:The ILC at 50, (New York: United Nations, N.Y., 1998), pp. 346-361.